Fox News Host Asks Marco Rubio if He’ll Leave Florida to Be Trump’s VP

Fox News host Shannon Bream asked Senator Marco Rubio on Sunday if he would leave Florida to become former President Donald Trump‘s vice presidential nominee ahead of the November presidential election.

Rubio, a Florida Republican, has been floated as a potential vice presidential choice for Trump, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, as the former president prepares for a rematch of the 2020 election against President Joe Biden, the Democratic incumbent, in November.

However, Rubio may face a dilemma in this scenario if he were to become Trump’s vice president. While there’s no rule prohibiting the president and vice president from being from the same state, Article 12 of the U.S. Constitution states that electors in the Electoral College may not cast two votes from their same state. In this case, that means Florida’s electors would not be able to vote for both Rubio and Trump—who has changed his residency to Florida from New York in 2019.

Bream asked Rubio about whether he would change his residency to become Trump’s vice presidential nominee during an interview on Fox News Sunday.

“Here in Florida, you’re spending time with President Trump. Everyone says you’re on his VP shortlist, but that there may be a technical glitch with having two people from the same state when it comes down to an Electoral College vote. Would you leave the state of Florida or change your residency if you were asked to join the ticket?” she asked.

Rubio responded, “First of all, the vice presidential choice with Donald Trump is going to be made by one person, and that’s Donald Trump, and all this other stuff is just speculation. I get it, you know political reporters have to cover political topics. The primary is over, the general [election] is six months away, so then we’re going to speculate on the VP thing.”

The senator added that the Republican Party has an “extraordinary” amount of talent and that Trump has “a bunch of choices” for vice president and his Cabinet.

“He’s going to have an extremely talented group of people that can serve this country in multiple roles, and that’s a decision he’s going to have to make,” Rubio said. “And I would just have to say—leaving me aside for a moment—I think that before anyone decides to move from their state, you better make sure you don’t move to a state where there’s not some DA [district attorney] that makes a career after going after Republicans.”

The senator appeared to be referencing Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg and Georgia’s Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis. Bragg charged Trump last year with falsifying business documents related to a hush money payment allegedly made during his 2016 presidential campaign to adult film star Stormy Daniels to keep an alleged affair secret. Trump has denied the affair with Daniels ever took place.

Willis, meanwhile, charged Trump and 18 co-defendants in an indictment in August 2023 for allegedly conspiring to overturn Biden’s 2020 election victory in Georgia.

The former president has pleaded not guilty to all charges in both cases and has claimed they’re politically motivated against him.

Newsweek reached out to Rubio’s office for comment via email.

Rubio previously addressed the possibility of becoming Trump’s vice president in remarks to Politico in March.

“If anybody has been offered the chance to be vice president, they should consider that an honor and an incredible opportunity to serve our country. But that hasn’t happened, I haven’t spoken to anybody on his campaign about it. Never once have I talked to [Trump] about vice presidency,” he said.

In a March interview with Newsmax host Greg Kelly on his show Greg Kelly Reports, Trump said he had “a couple of people” in mind as potential vice president “that you may know very well.” He added that he had ruled some people out while also ruling “a lot of people in.”

“We have a lot of great people in the Republican Party, and they’ll do a terrific job, I think, but certainly I have people that I wouldn’t want as a vice president,” the former president said.